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JANUARY 29, 1938 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FIVE -NEWS REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD- AS ARCHBISHOP ENDORSES CONTEST His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, Archbishop of New Orleans, hands his endorsement to Miss Catherine Screen, president of the Chesterbelloc Chapter of Quill and Scroll, of New Orleans, sponsors of a National Eucharistic Poetry and Short Story Contest, open January 6 to April 21, 1938, for students of Catholic high schools throughout the United States. The contest is conducted in connection with the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress, to be held in New Orleans, October 17-20. LIFE’S MAKING POPE FASCIST SUPPORTER WIDELY PROTESTED Correction D e m a n ded — Mother of First World War Victim, Catholic, Dies LIFE, in its January issue assert ed that “Pope Pius XI . . . believes the world is a struggle between Communism and Fascism and the favors Fascism.” The statement oc casioned protests from all parts of the nation denouncing it as a mis statement of fact and demanding a correction. THE MOTHER of the first enlisted member of the U. S. Navy to lose his life m the World War is dead in Washington. She is Mrs. Annie Clif ford Eopolucci, 70, mother of John I. Eopolucci. U. S. N.. who died at sea arfter the torpedoing of the steamer Aztec off the coast of France early in April, 1917. Said Secretary Daniels of the Navy about this Catholic mother and son: “His mother gave more to the country than the richest man in American can give in money. She gave her son.” REV. JOHN E. WICKHAM, na tionally known as a preacher of mis sions, died in New York recently of a heart ailment at 53. Pastor of St. Brendan’s Church, New York, he was formerly superior of the New York Apostolate, and a native of Massachusetts. THE AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR, Dr. Schuschnigg, in his book, “Three imes Austria”, emphasizes his grati tude to the Jesuit Fathers for his education at the Stella Matutina. THE ARCHBISHOP of Bogota and Primate of Colombia protests against a bill in the national Senate there to nationalize the buildings of the College of San Bartolome, a Cath olic College conducted by the Jesuit Fathers. The bill would make the buildings government property. HOLY LAND riots between Janu ary, 1936, and October, 1937, resulted in 410 deaths, 113 convictions and seven death sentences, the British Colonial Secretary states. THE HOLY CROSS Congregation throughout the world numbers 1,500 Fathers and Brothers and 5,000 nuns, statistics compiled on the accasion of the centenary of the orrder show. The Congregation conducts the Uni versity of Notre Dame as well as numerc other leading institutions of learning throughout the world, and engages in parish, missionary and other work- FINLAND has a Bishop and eight priests laboring in an area as largs as that of New England, New York and New Jersey. TEE LAFAYETTE Diocese has nearly one-fourth of the 256,547 col ored Catholics in the United States, the .Louisiana See having a colored Catholic population of 62,000. They are for the most part descendants of slaves of the French and Aeadians who settled there. Six colored priests, members of the Society of the Di- vin; Word, are among the priests la boring there. HON. JOS. E. RANSDELL former ly United States Senator from Lou isiana, has been named a Knight of St. Gregory by the Holy Father, the Chancery office of the Diocese of Lafayette announces- Mr. Ransdell, who is 79, was born in Alexandria, La., studied law at Union College, Albany, N. Y., and served in the National House of Representatives from 1699 to 1913 and in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1931. CATHOLIC MEMBERS of the Na tional Anti-Syphilis Committee, of which General Pershing is chairman, include former Governor Smith, John J. Rascob. Secretary E. J. Heffron of the National Council of Catholic Men, Dr. Edward L- Keyes, Edward F. McGrady and Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States. REV. DR. JA IES A. MAGNER of Quigley Seminary, Chicago, recently addressed the members of the Chi cago Methodist Preachers’ Association at the Chicago Methodist Temple. THE MARYKNOLL FATHERS are planning a new preparatory seminary for the Foreign Missions in St. Louis, by permission of Archbishop Glen- non- Similar arrangements are being made in San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit and Cleveland. REV. W. COLEMAN NEVILS, S. J., formerly president of Georgetown University, noted classicist, and now reetdr of Loyola School, New York, addressed the Archaeological Society of Washington on the bi-millennium of the birth of Augustus. The mem bers of the society were the guests of the Atalnatian Ambassador and Donna Matilde de Suvich. DR. MONTE DE HONOR, whom the Baptist Standard of Texas and other publications announce is a Catholic Bishop who entered the Bap tist Church, was a member of the “Old Catholic” and the “National Catholic Church of Mexico”, neither of which has any more connection with the Vatican than the Baptist Church. CARDINAL HAYES at the annual meeting of the United States Catho- lis Historical Society in New York, lauded the Constitution of the United States as one of the noblest docu ments of its kind ever devised by man with the inspiration of Almighty God. THOMAS B. MORGAN, a non- Catholic newspaperman from the United States who has covered the Vatican since 1931, describes life at the Vatican in “A Reporter at the Vatican”, Longmans-Green and Com pany, New York. Mr. Morgan gives vivid descriptionns of the Holy Father and other great figures there. . BISHOP KELLEY of Oklahoma City and Tulsa delivered the sermon at the annual reception of converts at the University of Illinois when the Rev. Dr- John A. O’Brien, chaplain of the Newman Club there, received twelve students into the Church. CLAY CALHOUN, of Loyola Uni versity, New Orleans is picked for All-Star Second Team from Jesuit Colleges by the Jesuit College News paper Association; he is a back. Hon orable mention is given Hatch and Gerdy of Spring Hill College. MRS. SARAH S. COLLIER of New York, for many years active in Cath olic charities, received the Papal dec oration, Pro Ecclesia et Pontiface, from the Holy Father, Cardinal Hayes conferring it in the Archepiscopal Residence in New York. CONTROVERSY promotes defi ance instead of sympathy, Bishop Kelley of Oklahoma City and Tulsa (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK. — A tribute to His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Archbishop of New York, was a striking part of the address which Miss Rachel K. McDowell, Religious New Editor of The New York Times, delivered at the mid-winter meet ing of the Presbytery of New York last week, at the West End Presby terian Church. Miss McDowell is herself a Presbyterian. Speaking on the subject: “If I Were a Preacher,” to an audience which included 120 clergymen. Miss McDowell said in part: “If I were a preacher, an ambas sador of Christ, I would want those who came into my presence to go away felling a desire to live nearer God. “Cardinal Hayes always has this effect on me. You fathers and brethren here do not know him per sonally. But you all read in the newspapers about him—what he says and what he does. And you know he is a holy man. asserted in his lecture course on “The New Samaritan” at Notre Dame Uni versity. While controversy cannot al ways be avoided, it should be the hearers who ask for it, and not the speakers- People will be brought into the Church through organized effort, the Bishop asserted, effort through which runs the golden thread of kindness. MOTHER KIRBY of the Gray Nuns of the Cross, formerly superior-gen eral of the order, died at the mother- house in Ottawa at 96. Mother Kirby had been a member of the order 79 years, being professed August 24, 1858. THE TEMPERANCE Association of Ireland, with 250,000 members, held a convention recently attended by 285 delegates. Bishop Raphael Dig- nan of Clonfert presided. Relaxation of the laws regulating the liquor traffic was vigorously opposed. ENGLAND recently held a great four-day Catholic Action Congress at Liverpool in which the consolidation of the Catholic organization efforts of the country was a chief topic of discussion. THE DOMINICANS are returning to the Universitw of Cambridge • after an absence of four hundred years; they opened their first house there six hundred years ago, in 1328. AURIESVILLE, N- Y., where the North American Jesuit martyrs were killed by the Indians, will be the site of a new House of Tertianship and of Retreats, the Jesuit Fathers an nounce. Work on the building will start in the spring. CARDINAL MUNDELEIN present ed complete clothing outfits for one hundred poor boys, his annual Christmas custom. The boys were selected from fifty parishes. JOHN O’DEA, for many years his- who do not follow his acts and words from day to day, say to be that the scarlet robes of the Cardi nal might be the cause of some of my veneration. Fathers and breth ren, I see him also without his red ecclesiastical robes; I see him when he is wearing his black street clothes. His influence on me is always the same. “Cardinal Hayes never asks any favors; he never complains at any thing I do. He is always paternal, benign. It is not my good fortune to see him to talk to very often now adays. The last time was on New Year’s Day at his annual ‘at home’ to his priests and some of his lay personal friends. If possible he seemed more spiritual than ever. “Each time I am with him and he talks to me he gives out something —a spiritual radiance. For at least three days afterwards I go about in a sort of spiritual glow. The reason Cardinal Hayes is such an everpres ent benediction to my life is because JESUITS TO OBSERVE JUBILEE IN ALASKA They Have Been Laboring There for Fifty Years JUNEAU, Alaska.—From Ketchi kan to Kotzebue, Alaskan churches will this year observe the golden ju bilee of the Jesuit missions in this territory. Each church will hold a separate celebration. In this city the Most Rev. Joseph R. Crimont, S.J., Vicar Apos tolic of Alaska, who for 43 years has striven to enlarge the missions, will lead the jubilee observance. Jesuit mission endeavor in Alaska dates back to November 27, 1886. In that year the rifle of a man crazed by fatigue and privation, put an end to the missionary career of the Most Rev. Charles John Seghers, former Archbishop of Oregon City and Van couver Island, as he was within a day’s journey of Nulato, where he proposed to found the first mission. The following spring the Rev. Fa ther Tosi, S.J., reached Nulato and the mission was started. Two priests and three sisters of St. Ann are now serving at this mission. A white iron cross stands today on the slopes of Yissetlatch, now called Bishop Mountain In memory of Arch bishop Seghers, whose remains are buried in St. Andrew’s Church in Victoria, B. C. The cross was a gift from the Couer d’Alene Indians of Idaho. torian of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians and editor of The National Hibernian from 1924 to 1930, died near Philadelphia late in December at 79. JACQUES GAGNON, a student at Joliette Seminary in Canada and a resident of Montreal is one of Can ada’s eleven Rhodes scholars. He is nineteen. SAN FRANCISCO will entertain the Pacific Coast Regional Conference of the American Catholic Philosophi cal Association January 28th and 29th, with Archbishop Mitty and Monsig nor Fulton Sheen as speakers at the closing banquet. 30 LABOR LEADERS and over 200 union workers are enrolled in the Crown Heights School for Catholic Workmen at the Brooklyn Prepara tory School under the auspices of the Jesuit Fatners. rev. t. s. McDermott, o. p., provincial of the Dominican Fathers in the United States, in a Holy Name Sunday address over the NBC net work, told the Holy Name men of the nation that the country today has great need of men of strong Christian principles in public life, men who believe in the virtues of a Christian home and in the proper upbringing of children. BOSTON’S Catholic schools of grammar school grade save the public treasury the sum of $10,000,000 an nually, the Rev. Richard Quinlan diocesan superintendent of schools, says m the twenty-fourth annual re port of the schools of the Archdiocese, embracing Northeast em Massa chusetts. ARCHBISHOP MOONEY of De troit, has been elected honorary chap- Heads Coaches Harry Stuhldreher, head coach at the University of Wisconsin, and formerly one of Notre Dame’s fa mous “four horsemen”, who has been elected president of the American Football Coaches’ As sociation, at the meeting of the Association just held in New Orleans. New Auxiliary „ The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Stephen S. Woznicki, pastor of St. Hyacinth’s Church, Detroit, and secretary to the late Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, who has been named Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdio cese of Detroit, to assist Arch bishop Edward Mooney. (Hoff man Studio.) lain of the Mark Twain Society. NINE NEW SCHOOLS, including six junior high and one high schools, have been opened during the year in the Archdiocese of Chicago. SEVENTEEN NOVICES of the Maryknoll Sisters, destined for work in the missions of the Orient, made their first vows and sixteen postu lants received habits at the Mary knoll Motherhouse at Ossining, N. Y. early in January, Bishop James Walsh, M. M., presiding. The Mary knoll Sisters now number 550, prac tically all of them from this country. ERNIE PYLE in an article syndi cated for the Scripps-Howard news paper, describes the life of Father Peter d’Orgeval-Debouchet, SS. CC., chaplain of the leper colony on the Island of Molokai and successor to the famed Father Damien. He has been at Molakai twelve years, con tacted the disease while ministering to the lepers, and was cured. A NOTED JESUIT, formerly on the faculty of St. Louis and Fordham universities, where he was an authority on psychology, Father Jaime Castiellory Fernandez del Valle, S. J., was killed in an automo bile accident in Mexico City, and a student, Jesus Sodi Jalil, died with him. He received his Ph. D. degree from the University of Berlin. THE WORKS PROGRESS Adminis tration has issued a catalogue of 95 Catholic plays, the announcement being made by Emmet Lavery, direc tor of the Federal Theatre Project. HARRY STUHLDREHER, one of the famed “four horsemen" of Notre Dame and now head coach at the University of Wisconsin, was elect ed president of the American Foot ball Coaches’ Association at its con vention in New Orleans. TWO CANADIAN SISTERS, Mother St. Rosine and Sister St. Eustelle of the Motherhouse of the Congregation de Notre Dame, re cently observed the seventieth an niversary of their profession as nuns; there have been only 16 such anni versaries in the 280 years of the his tory of the order. CARDINAL HINSLEY, of England has had the American Church of Santa Susanna in Rome assigned to him as his titular church. The Rev. Thomas Lantry O’Neill, C, S. P., rec tor of the church, welcomed His Eminence, who in his response, laud ed the Church in the United States, and particularly its splendid parochial school system. ANGLICAN LEADERS in England, headed by such figures as Lord Hali fax have presented a memorial to the English Anglican Archbishops urging “a far larger proportion of perma nently unmarried clergy”. REV. JOSEPH M. EGAN, S. J., pro fessor of theology at St. Mary’s Seminary, Mundelein, 111., has been named assistant to the Very Rev. Wil liam M. Magee, S. J., provincial of the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. REV. CHARLES DAWSON, S. J., a former Anglican clergyman, and for years secretary to Cardinal Man ning, is dead in England at 73 from injuries sustained when he was knocked down by an automobile. As a missionary he served in India and British’ Guiana. “Some of my fellow Protestants, he is truly a holy man. Protestant Praises Cardinal Before Presbyterian Group
